A safe and accessible transportation system is critical to our way of life in Colorado. And yet our transportation infrastructure is literally crumbling around us. According to a recent study, 70 percent of the roads in Colorado are rated “poor or mediocre,” and over 500 bridges around the state are rated as “structurally deficient.”

Colorado residents are going to be voting on a variety of important ballot measures next month. The one that is most troubling is Amendment 74. This suggested change to the Colorado Constitution would expose both the state and all local governments to untold legal exposure with unclear language referring to government regulations or actions which would “reduce” the “fair market value” of private property and subject taxpayers to “just compensation” to a private property owner. All types of ordinances and policies at the municipal level would be affected, like code enforcement, land use and zoning, licensing, and redevelopment.

The venerable Colorado Municipal League staked out the November ballot with a series of position papers this week. CML supports a sales tax for transportation, but not an opposing measure to require the legislature to fund transportation without raising taxes.

We can build and modernize infrastructure while also keeping environment and public health protections in place. We don’t have to choose one or the other, and that is what @SEEC’s proposal is all about: https://t.co/HGVKmE6tHz

Where is your outrage for Michael Bennet, Jared Polis and Diana DeGette? Tell the entire congressional delegation to do its job — convince colleagues in Congress to change the law. Dems didn’t do it when they had control of Congress and WH. #copoliticshttps://t.co/5TqfIecKk3

In a unanimous vote Monday, the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission sent a strong message to "home rule" cities and towns that don't have ethics policies, as well as to those that believe their policies are up to snuff.

Colorado municipalities are delivering public safety services — police and fire departments — more efficiently in the last year, according to a survey released Thursday, though most cities and towns are finding it hard to recruit and retain officers.

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